Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LONGEST EGO STREAK: John Huston playing his self-beloved role of rebel boy while delivering the Establishment message that we all ought to take the awards more seriously...
...week's end the government had still not decided what to do with 5 Spinola, who was stripped of his job but not his military rank. A dashing combat commander who often helicoptered to rebel fighting fronts armed only with a swagger stick, Spinola is admired not only by the 45,000 troops in Portugal but also by both black soldiers and white settlers in Africa. After he left his position last year as commander and military governor of Guinea-Bissau (where he reportedly met in secret with leaders of the rebel forces), troop morale there plummeted...
...story involves Jonas Acme, American capitalist, who makes pig-oil beer from smuggled pig-nuts. Acme, with somewhat convoluted logic, explains that as long as the American working man drinks pig-oil beer, he will not rebel...
HOME SECRETARY: Roy Jenkins, 54, a committed European who led the rebel Labor faction that favored Common Market membership, an issue over which he resigned from the party's shadow cabinet at one point. As Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1967 to 1970, he was credited with putting Britain back on its economic feet. He is regarded as one of Labor's most thoughtful and articulate spokesmen...
...Rebel officers including Lt. Col. Joao Almeida Bruno, a close friend of ousted general Antonio de Spinola and former chief of staff Francisco Costa da Gomes, said they revolted in support of Spinola...